Telephone Numbers

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My Aunty Mary rang me up one day to tell me that she had just had a telephone installed. It was the first one that she had ever had and she was excited and was ringing round all her friends and relatives to tell them. I asked her to wait a moment while I fetched a pen and paper so that I could make a note of her number. She told me that there was no need for me to note the number since it was the same as mine. She lived in the Nottingham telephone area and I lived just over the border in Derby so we had different area codes. We did however have the same 7 digit land line number.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:37:31 +0000Coincidence ID:4644